I wrote ‘The Chapel’ in Boca, shortly after I came back from England. I like the scene where the ghostly black monk with the hooked nose appears. Despite the frightening apparition, Jimmy and Sparrow manage to find the third and final clue and escape back to the safe haven of the shelter. Exciting stuff! Now

I like to spend at least a little time in England every year if I can. I enjoy my time visiting friends and family, remembering that potato chips are really called ‘crisps’, and wandering around the narrow little streets in my home town of Billericay. I always visit Lake Meadows at least once, with its tall

There is a quote I like very much from Lewis Carroll, ‘Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ I assume he was talking about writing, though you could usefully apply his advice to many things. If only writing a novel was as simple as this sounds. The

2008 was a time of many changes for me, and very few of them were for the good. I had a good job with a large Telecoms company in Boca Raton, Florida. I had a small group of friends, some of whom I had known since moving from Germany to the US in 1998. We